The most badass physicist you’ve probably never heard of

When he was seven years old, he tried to stab a Spanish solider with a lanceWhen he was eighteen, he talked a friend out of assassinating NapoleonHe once angered an archbishop so much that the holy man punched him in the faceHe has negotiated with bandits, been chased by a mob, broken out of prisonHe is:François Arago, the most interesting physicist in the world